hrp0092s10.1 | Brain development and sex: Is it Chromosomes or Hormones? | ESPE2019
Reinl Erin
, McCarthy Margaret
Sex is one of the strongest biological factors influencing neural development, and yet our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of sexual differentiation is only just beginning. Just like the bipotential gonads, which only differentiate upon expression of SRY in XY males, the brain is also bipotential and differentiates due to a combination of genetic, epigenetic, environmental, and hormonal exposures. A period of testosterone production by the testes, which occurs as ...